Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant

Posted on April 17, 2024  •  1 minutes  • 118 words

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The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of could be seen to , creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of . The outer layers of the star crashed into the , driving a that is still visible today. The captures some of that filamentary and gigantic shock in .As gas flies away from the detonated star, it and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands.Remaining at the center of the is a , a star as dense as nuclear matter that more than ten times in a single second.